Example sentences of "it not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 2 | It not infrequently happens that ambiguous readings are related in such a way that in certain contexts one reading entails the other . |
| 3 | It not infrequently happens that an exactly appropriate lexical partner that would complete a paradigmatic relationship is missing , but a lexical item exists , with virtually the required meaning , but of the wrong syntactic category . |
| 4 | Why then does it not eventually become an exact facsimile of that mother ? |
| 5 | Thirdly , it does not inspire confidence in her work to find it not simply going beyond the independent evidence we have , but often going against it . |
| 6 | Does not that demonstrate that low taxation , low inflation and good industrial relations are the basis for strong investment , including inward investment ; and does it not also show that the future of this country is excellent under this Government ? |
| 7 | And might it not also stimulate the worst possible scenario or terrorist activity ? |
| 8 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why can it not just say we 've landed ? ’ |
| 10 | Is it not absolutely clear that the ’ next steps ’ agency approach of the 1980s proved extremely successful in improving accountability , promoting a better service to the public and giving agency employees greater job satisfaction ? |
| 11 | Now many commentators have found it not entirely clear what Locke has in mind and I 'm puzzled by erm the confusion into which they seem to have fallen . |
| 12 | Why do we need more and better soul — why should it not swiftly become a fat , sweaty , obscenity , like the last lot did ? |
| 13 | The all-or-nothing spoils of an election victory and the method of election encouraged ( if it not always produced ) a contest between two major parties . |
| 14 | Does it not merely subtract from what is already there , and should n't a truly creative process add something too ? |
| 15 | Is it not enough to have to endure that when one is alive ? ’ |
| 16 | Is it not far fetched and fanciful to regard lay-offs and redundancies as cleverly disguised methods of electing to consume more leisure ? |
| 17 | And does it not readily pervade all bodies ? |
| 18 | It would be uncharitable to suggest that the lead makers prefer this line because it not only keeps them in business , but shifts the immediate cost to the motorist and gives the motor components business a chance to make more money . |
| 19 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 20 | It not only tells the story ‘ with more simplicity , more verve , clarity , and impact … [ it ] will also educate the child 's taste and his visual sense. , |
| 21 | However , Ancient Society also differed from earlier work because of the high quality of the scholarly work on which it was based , because of the sympathy of the writer for primitives , and because it not only defined stages but in many cases suggested mechanisms which explained why one stage should change to another . |
| 22 | It not only receives , it picks and chooses and processes all it receives . |
| 23 | I feel it is wholly wrong that abortion could be seen as a means of contraception because it not only wastes the money of the N.H.S. but I think that abortions should only be considered in certain cases . |
| 24 | It is known as the Appropriation Act because it not only grants approval for the total sums requested , but also prescribes how the overall sum is to be apportioned to particular votes in order to finance specified services . |
| 25 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
| 26 | More than this , it not only exemplifies but portrays artistic creativity in a stunning exposure of the human mind and its elaborate yet primal mechanism of imagination . |
| 27 | It not only creates mood , it is also the chief unifying factor of the music , which otherwise is somewhat fragmentary . |
| 28 | It not only criticises nearly all forms of alternative treatment , but accuses practitioners of reluctance to submit claims to scientific examination . |
| 29 | It not only records speeds , but evidence of other hazards . |
| 30 | It clearly represented for him a literary turning-point since it not only swept aside all mystifying attempts to separate the literary activity from the contemporary socio-political context , but also injected a coherent set of political arguments squarely into the literary debate : anti-fascism , anti-colonialism , anti-capitalism , arguments that were beginning to find much grass-roots and intellectual support in France . |